Costs for Lots and Structures

Arbor Parking Structure: Pay-by-space machines are located on levels 1-8.

Patients and visitors can park in a numbered parking stall, note the stall number posted on a sign or on the ground, and pay at the pay-by-space machine using cash or a credit card.

There are two ways you can add parking time. You can extend your parking by text. Use a credit card to pay for parking at the pay station and when prompted, add your cell phone number. You will receive a reminder text message when your parking is about to expire. To extend your parking time, reply to the text message with the amount of parking time you need. You can also add more time at the machines located near the hospital cafeteria and in the lobby of Medical Offices South. You will need to use the "add time" code that is on your parking receipt.

You do NOT need to display the ticket on your dashboard; in fact, you will need your ticket on hand if you need to add additional hours.

24-hour tickets have return parking privileges in any visitor parking space in Arbor Parking Structure, but you must
display your ticket on your dashboard.

First Ave. and Montecito Way Lot: Patient parking is $4 for the first two hours and $1 for each additional hour, not to exceed $8 per day. Pay stations accept cash, validation tickets, and credit cards.

Parking lot across from the main entrance of the Medical Center on Arbor Drive: $3 per hour. (This lot is not managed by UC San Diego Health.)

4th and Lewis Parking Garage: Located in the basement of the building, parking is free with validation.

Complimentary disabled parking is available in meters and
accessible spaces when you display a valid Disabled Person placard or plates.

Valet Parking

Valet parking is available between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays at the main entrance to the Medical Center on Arbor Drive. The cost is a $5 service fee plus parking cost of 50 cents per half-hour up to $5. The daily maximum for valet service and parking costs is $10. Maternity patients can receive a discounted rate upon request for appointments and hospital visits.

Valet service is not available on nights or weekends.

Staff Parking

Driving Directions

To Medical Center or Medical Offices South

From I-5: Exit on Washington Street and turn left (east). Turn left on First Avenue, and continue straight past E. Lewis Street. For the Montecito Parking Lot, select the left lane and turn left into the driveway past Montecito Way. For the Arbor Parking Structure, select the right lane and follow the curve left onto W. Arbor Drive. Drive past the Medical Center, directly into the parking garage at the end of W. Arbor Drive.

From SR-163: If you are coming southbound, exit on Washington Street West. If you are coming northbound, exit on Washington Street (which will take you eastward), and then make a U-turn so that you are headed west. Turn right on First Avenue, and continue straight past E. Lewis Street. For the Montecito Parking Lot, select the left lane and turn left into the driveway past Montecito Way. For the Arbor Parking Structure, select the right lane and follow the curve left onto W. Arbor Drive. Go past the Medical Center, directly into the parking garage at the end of W. Arbor Drive.

To Fourth and Lewis Medical Offices

From I-5: Exit on Washington Street and go East. Turn left on Fourth Avenue, go straight through the stop sign at Lewis Street, and make an immediate left into the underground parking structure.

From SR-163: If you are coming southbound, exit on Washington Street West. If you are coming northbound, exit on Washington Street (which will take you eastward), and then make a U-turn so that you are headed west. Turn right on Fourth Avenue, go straight through the stop sign at Lewis Street, and make an immediate left into the underground parking structure.